Floating Point INF/INF

Asked Oct 03 '14 at 17:31

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So I know that mathematically infinity/infinity = NAN. My question is, how does the computer come to this result? infinity is represented by 7F800000. So from a computers perspective, 7F800000/7F800000 should be 1. Does the computer know that it's dealing with infinity numbers and automatically outputs NAN as the result?

edited Apr 14 '15 at 17:37

Andrea

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asked Oct 03 '14 at 17:31

Brendan Burkett

Please have a look at – Reinhard Männer Oct 03 '14 at 17:37
and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point. floating point operations are not that simple – 1010 Oct 03 '14 at 17:47

Floating Point INF/INF

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